Remell
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Remell has been given to 62 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Remell, 1959
1 in 594,000
Remell over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Remell?
Remell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1959, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1959
- 1 in 594,000
- 7 of 4,157,642 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 289,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1959
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 411,695 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Remell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1959 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 411,695 children born in 1959 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Remell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Remells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Remell was born before 1928 — so the typical Remell is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 41.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 18
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (26).
Is Remell rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1928 (8)
- Years since peak
- 97
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.9% average annual change
Spellings of Remell
Remell is not the most common spelling — Jewell is, with 46.8% against Remell's 0.10%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Remell around the world
Where Remell ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2024#5,120in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Remell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Remell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Remell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.